Posted November 14, 2025
The game was given for free today on that thing with no forum, or comments or reviews. Saw this forum is mostly empty, so i'm posting this here where it will most likely remain unnoticed for a long, long while.
Anyway, i'm in a skirmish. Medium map, light and dark, 6 players, 3 teams of 2. I go in with the Old Ones guns blazing, taking a location every turn on the dark map. Ally doing their thing on light map. Everything looks good. Then, turn 6, one of the AIs gets defeated. Hoe? No idea, the map is hidden, all fogged up.
On turn 10, i reach the bottom of the map and a third of the way sideways at the top. No losses, no time wasted, right?
Eh, at the bottom, i meet the first enemy. Same faction as me, army similar to mine, 3 bags of loot in tow. Things look balanced, should come out okay. Nope. They spank me hard. 2 units lost, the rest almost dead. I manage to retreat in time. They're injured as well so they back off.
Turn 12. Up top, same enemy as below, more bags of loot, artefacts, even stronger than the one below.
Turn 15. I beef up my main chump, top is full on defence. Troops better than bottom feeder. Easy win, right? Wrong. Can't even retreat, lose chump and whole army.
Turn 16. Its third hero shows up at the bottom, puts both others to shame. I can tell i have no chance of winning in any way.
Meanwhile, my 'ally' barely left its corner of the map.
So i look at the situation and realize that it's impossible for that AI to reach that far, conquer near 2-thirds of the map and have at least 3 heroes full with bags of loot when each hero can only attack once per turn. What a cheating bastard!
All in all, with my short experience today, i am so very glad i didn't buy this game until now because it was quite frustrating to see this kind of thing happening. I know what i had, i know what my ally had and i saw what that enemy had. And it was all bullcrap. There was no way they could have legitimately gained all those troops and all that loot if the game worked in a balanced and fair way.
This at game version 1.5. Point is, it ain't right, ain't right at all..
Anyway, i'm in a skirmish. Medium map, light and dark, 6 players, 3 teams of 2. I go in with the Old Ones guns blazing, taking a location every turn on the dark map. Ally doing their thing on light map. Everything looks good. Then, turn 6, one of the AIs gets defeated. Hoe? No idea, the map is hidden, all fogged up.
On turn 10, i reach the bottom of the map and a third of the way sideways at the top. No losses, no time wasted, right?
Eh, at the bottom, i meet the first enemy. Same faction as me, army similar to mine, 3 bags of loot in tow. Things look balanced, should come out okay. Nope. They spank me hard. 2 units lost, the rest almost dead. I manage to retreat in time. They're injured as well so they back off.
Turn 12. Up top, same enemy as below, more bags of loot, artefacts, even stronger than the one below.
Turn 15. I beef up my main chump, top is full on defence. Troops better than bottom feeder. Easy win, right? Wrong. Can't even retreat, lose chump and whole army.
Turn 16. Its third hero shows up at the bottom, puts both others to shame. I can tell i have no chance of winning in any way.
Meanwhile, my 'ally' barely left its corner of the map.
So i look at the situation and realize that it's impossible for that AI to reach that far, conquer near 2-thirds of the map and have at least 3 heroes full with bags of loot when each hero can only attack once per turn. What a cheating bastard!
All in all, with my short experience today, i am so very glad i didn't buy this game until now because it was quite frustrating to see this kind of thing happening. I know what i had, i know what my ally had and i saw what that enemy had. And it was all bullcrap. There was no way they could have legitimately gained all those troops and all that loot if the game worked in a balanced and fair way.
This at game version 1.5. Point is, it ain't right, ain't right at all..